Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-10
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
The lntelligenCer and the I'rohibi;ionists-
\ 81. JOhnite SluCS the PhariSccs in Ter


CHARLESTON, w. VA, June 7.-Pleasc
permit crank" of the first water TO an.
swer few of the MttLigeaccr'S recent in
quiries The IHt,Higcnca is anxious to
know whether or not the next Republican
State Convention shall put in its platform
plank iayOring the adoption Of the pro
hibition amendment. 1t also wants IL
know what would be the result of the
adoption Of such 4 plank; whether the
party would gain more ProhibitiuniStS
than it would lose "antis,' or rice rcrSa
The only question with the MtcHigcHccr i,
which will win the most votes, TO adopt OF
not TO adont the carrying of the amend
mendment rs party measure. II to adopt
will secure the most votes, then ii is fol
adoption, although frequently it has stated
that it is opposed TO the measure. If IL
oppose promises the greatest political sue
cess, then this extremely moral journal il
for opposition. 1t apparently has no prin.
ciplcS of its own, and is frank enough tC
hint that its party has none on the queS
ton, and is "tor" or against or Isl
lent" first, last and all the time "lor rev
enuc Only'-Or rather for votes.
Now let your humble servant tell the
MttHigcHcer 4 few things it either don
know or don't want to know. 1t may
think it can continue to bambOOZlc the
temperance men i'll its own party as 1t has
81 earnestly tried to mislead, misreprcSent,
aud Willy the true blues" who had Il
hand in the ceremony of knocking out i'll
the first round the Mi,Hig,Rccr'S Golden
CalT'-thc only and inimitable ".Iim''
from the State of Maine. But 1t will
wakcn up one of these mornings trans
formed into double column 'astOnlSher
when the mistake is discovered too late
to make amends Now, Tor the hioHi'
geac,r'S benefit, let it he said that It don
matter whether the Republican party
lavors the adoption Of the Prohibition
amendment or not. Every PrOhibitiOnlSt
in the State will work Ond vote for the
amendment, but not a single one OF them
will he led TO vote the Republican ticket
because that party may choose to favor the
amendment. The PrOhlbtiOniSts OF this
State and OF this country are beginning
to have u half thimble full of senSt
ut least And they don't propose to bc
made 4 cats paw Of the Republican party,
as the GreenhackerS have been, and the
MieHig,nctI, in its great eagcrneSS TO get
back INTO the GOOD graceS of tn" Rcpubli'
can fold, might ~ well make its CalCula-
tons accordingly.
The IahHigmrar or the Republican party
can favor ~ oppose ~ 1t pieaseS, nut the
party and the paper have made such =
record on the Prohibition question that no
sensible rrOhib.lioniSt will be mis!cl. TIE
MtCliigenorr has declared time and again
during the past few months that it is OPP
posed to prohibition. 1t has placed itself
ON record on that side of the question, by
all its past ut,crtnceS and past labors, sc
that whenever it changes from 1t, 1t will
simply he To secure votes for It's iavOClte
party. As 30 the party IN this state IT ha'
also placed itself on record. Three year
AGO. IN its State Convention, when asked
to favor submission only, the party voted
down the proposition knocked the plank
out of their platform hv vote OF BIB Il
lu3. Last fall, after the PrUmhitiOniSt'
began calling their county conventions and
organizing all over the State, then the Re
puhlicans hcgln to get scared and
concluded that something must he
done to turn the tide and catch that vote.
50 they called their State conference al
Parkcrsburg. And what did they do:
After passing I resolution that nothing that
was 10 be said or done in the conference
could bind anyone or anything. and dchat'
ing the question red hot Tor about ten
hours. they finally voted down or with
drew everything that had any scmblaacr
of committing the party, and finally passed
milk and water connection to the effect
that il was the sense of the conference, aS
individual members only, that the
liquor question should he submitted TO the
people That showed the duplicity OF the
party as well as Prohibitionlsts cared to
see it, aud especially was their object clear
when their StumperS went about the state
declaring that the only way. TO get prohl-
bition was to vote the Republican ticket.
Like the "bloody shirt, y that kind of tenn
peraucc racket is getting badly dilapidated.
The scheme, Us the hioiigcHccr and it,
crowd propose t0 work the strings now, as
is very apparent, is Il very clever one, in
deed. The idea is to get the Re
at the next State convention. By
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with the Prohibition party and get their
votes and the votes Of Il great many tenn
perluce Democrats. In this manner they
hope 10 carry the State. At the same time
they propose to keep all the Republican
liquor men solid 10y quietly but decidedly
defeating the amendment at the polls. 1t
is u very clever scheme hut it IS too trans
parent. 1t is the Michigan and Pcnnsyi'
yania tactics, aud the Prohibition "CrankS
are getting posted. In Michigan they
were finally driven 10 submit, thereby
gaining many Of the ProhibitiOnists Ia hell
elect their State ticket, hut for fear OF the
liuu0r interests they counted out and de-
leatyd the amendment by fraud and treach
crv. In Pennsylvania that party declared
| in wiShy-washy way in favor 0i
| submission, aud made D. c. kellar, Presl'
dent of the State Liquor League, and .
| leading brewer, Chairman of the State
| Finance Committee, whose special duty II
was to raise funds from the liquor inter
ests to help carry on the Repuhlcan-pro
hibition campaign. The HteHigcaccr may
think 1t can play full hand at that kIn'
of game in this State, but us ldioti'
cranks" and Unreasonable traitors nave
! got our eyc-tecth cut.
The Republican party lie doomed. The
liquor interests don't dare trust the organ
ization because they would he sold out III
stanter if the radical machine imagine,
that favoring prohibition would win. Thu
! ProhibtiOnists won't unite with them 10
the very same reason they can't trust thu
party to fulfill its promises even if IT woult
make them satisfactory. The Greenhacl
kite tail didn't win and is dead duck
What will remain of the organization ate
ISIS will hardly make a respectable III
neral. 1t has become Il mere puppet last
ing for the sceptrc OF its former grandeur
and the country will he well nd OF tn
goodhye old chestnut ST. JoHN!rE.
FINANCE AID TRADE.